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Drawing, Design for an Ornamental Border Used for the Surround to the General Chart in John Pine's "Tapestry Hangings in the House of Lords"
This is a Drawing. It was designed by Hubert-François Gravelot and published by John Pine and collected by Horace Walpole and Barry Delany. It is dated ca. 1739 and we acquired it in 1946. Its medium is brush and brown ink and brown wash over gray ink on white laid paper in six sections, laid down . It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
Its dimensions are
37.5 x 60.9 cm (14 3/4 x 24 in.)
It is inscribed
Inscriptions are barely legible. Inscribed in graphite, lower left: Barry Delany [partly illegible]; lower right: Horace Walpole's Coll.; on verso, also in graphite: Strawberry Hill / Van Dyck / B 1599 D 1640 / 14 Th / B.D.
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for an Ornamental Border Used for the Surround to the General Chart in John Pine's "Tapestry Hangings in the House of Lords"; Designed by Hubert-François Gravelot (French, active England, 1699 - 1773); Collected by Horace Walpole (1717–1797), Barry Delany; Published by John Pine (English, 1690 - 1756); England; brush and brown ink and brown wash over gray ink on white laid paper in six sections, laid down ; 37.5 x 60.9 cm (14 3/4 x 24 in.) ; Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane; 1946-2-2
